Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Chris Byrne

Professor of Endocrinol & Met
Connect with Chris

Email: C.D.Byrne@soton.ac.uk

Professor Cyrus Cooper

Prof Rheumatology Clinical Epidemiology
Research interests
  • Key research contributions have been:
  • discovery of the developmental influences which contribute to the risk of osteoporosis and hi…
  • demonstration that maternal vitamin D insufficiency is associated with sub-optimal bone miner…
Connect with Cyrus

Email: cc@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Philip Calder

Professor In Nutritional Immunology
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Email: P.C.Calder@soton.ac.uk

Professor Ratko Djukanovic

Professor of Medicine
Research interests
  • Professor Djukanovic has a lifelong interest in asthma, especially its severe forms. where hi…
  • Underlying mechanisms of asthma: Professor Djukanovic has conducted pioneer studies into the …
  • Stratification of asthma into clinical phenotypes and mechanism-based endotypes: Professor Dj…
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Email: rd1@soton.ac.uk

Professor Keith Godfrey

Associate Dean Enterprise
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Email: kmg@mrc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Hasan Arshad

Prof in Allergy & Clinical Immunology
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Email: S.H.Arshad@soton.ac.uk

Dr Stephen Wootton PhD FAfN OBE

Associate Professor
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Email: S.A.Wootton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Graham Roberts

Prof in Paed. Allergy & Resp. Medicine
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Email: g.c.roberts@soton.ac.uk

Professor Saul Faust MBBS, PhD, FRCPCH, FFPM(Hon), FHEA, OBE

Professor Paediatric Immunology & Infect
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Email: s.faust@soton.ac.uk

Research outputs

Placental uptake and metabolism of 25(OH)vitamin D determine its activity within the fetoplacental unit
Brogan Ashley, Claire Simner, Antigoni Manousopoulou, Carl Jenkinson, Felicity Hey, Jennifer M. Frost, Faisal I Rezwan, Cory H White, Emma Lofthouse, Emily Hyde, Laura, Diana Frances Cooke, Sheila Barton, Pamela A Mahon, Elizabeth Curtis, Rebecca Moon, Sarah Crozier, Hazel Inskip, Keith Godfrey, John Holloway, Cyrus Cooper, Kerry S. Jones, Rohan Lewis, Martin Hewison, Spiros Garbis, Miguel R. Branco, Nicholas Harvey & Jane Cleal, 2022, eLife, 11
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.71094
Type: article
Liver fat in adult survivors of severe acute malnutrition
Debbie S. Thompson, Tamika Y.N. Royal-Thomas, Ingrid A. Tennant, Deanne P. Soares, Christopher D. Byrne, Terrence E. Forrester, Peter D. Gluckman & Michael S. Boyne, 2022, Scientific Reports, 12(1)
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07749-5
Type: article
Utility of KI-67 as a prognostic biomarker in pulmonary neuroendocrine neoplasms: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2022, BMJ Open, 12(3), e041961
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2020-041961
Type: article
Digital healthcare in COPD management: a narrative review on the advantages, pitfalls, and need for further research
Alastair Watson & Tom M.A. Wilkinson, 2022, Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 16
DOI: 10.1177/17534666221075493
Type: review
Modification of subcutaneous white adipose tissue inflammation by omega-3 fatty acids is limited in human obesity-a double blind, randomised clinical trial
Helena L. Fisk, Caroline E. Childs, Elizabeth A. Miles, Robert Ayres, Paul S. Noakes, Carolina Paras-Chavez, Ondrej Kuda, Jan Kopecký, Elie Antoun, Karen A. Lillycrop & Philip C. Calder, 2022, EBioMedicine, 77
DOI: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.103909
Type: article
Duodenal-jejunal bypass liner for the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus and obesity
Aruchuna Ruban, Alexander D Miras, Michael A Glaysher, Anthony P Goldstone, Christina G Prechtl, Nicholas Johnson, Navpreet Chhina, Werd Al-Najim, Madhawi Aldhwayan, Natalia Klimowska-Nassar, Claire Smith, Joanne Lord, Jia V Li, Lilliam Flores, Moaz Al-Lababidi, Georgios K Dimitriadis, Mayank Patel, Michael Moore, Harvinder Chahal, Ahmed R Ahmed, Jonathan Cousins, Ghadah Aldubaikhi, Ben Glover, Emanuela Falaschetti, Hutan Ashrafian, Carel W le Roux, Ara Darzi, James P Byrne & Julian P Teare, 2022, Annals of Surgery, 275(3), 440-447
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000004980
Type: article
The effect of wasting and stunting during severe acute malnutrition in infancy on insulin sensitivity and insulin clearance in adult life
Debbie S. Thompson, Patrice M. Francis-Emmanuel, Alan T. Barnett, Clive Osmond, Mark Hanson, Christopher Byrne, Peter D. Gluckman, Terrence E. Forrester & Michael S. Boyne, 2022, Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, 13(6), 750-756
DOI: 10.1017/S2040174422000034
Type: article